HISTORY 182A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Orwell, Cyborg, Totalitarianism
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Anticipate: make the future real enough to take seriously before it actually can happen. All futuring is fictional, just i different voices and modes. Its affect can be positive, negative, or nominally neutral. Technologies of surveillance, knowing, control, rewriting the data of the past. Co production of technologies, selves, and social order: who governs, who controls, what technologies get created and deployed, to what ends, technological totalitarianism. This is science and it is fiction: part of the existing life world, part of the fantasy world, part of the future. What can we learn from cyborgs in their different incarnations: promises of augmentation, anxiety loss of human, potential obsolescence, what futures we can and can"t see. Data science as a field of practice. More than existing sciences: more than conventional data analysis, data at a scale that requires computational handing with all its complexities. 2020: one origin story: dj patil and jeff hammerbacher (linkedin an facebook)
